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Virginia Oldoini helped conceptualize and starred in more than four hundred portraits so experimental and expressive that they have drawn comparisons to works by Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman.
Maidment with early 19th-century periodicals: he was thrilled by ‘the inky blackness of the lettering, shouting display types and perpetually inventive combination of type, image and white page’ ...
Call it a recession indicator or simply growing up, the culture is constantly craving nostalgia. Once a generation’s trend cycles have become stale, they begin to romanticize a palatable, upgraded ...
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A young man with a watering can pretends to douse his companions. Two friends playfully attack each other, brandishing a hacksaw and a cleaver. A grinning girl takes aim with a popgun. Typical ...
A newly rediscovered 1897 short by famed French filmmaker Georges Méliès is being hailed as the first-ever depiction of a robot in cinema.
In 1842, a court in Lancaster, England, convicted a young lawyer, George Baxter Grundy, of forging payment, and promptly sent him to serve a fifteen-year sentence in Bermuda, “beyond the seas.” The ...
This course presents an introduction to nineteenth-century art and the ideas that fostered its creation. The purpose of the class is to provide an in-depth overview of the major themes, artists, and ...
The Europeans.authorBy Orlando Figes.Metropolitan Books; 592 pages; $35. Allen Lane; £30. FOR AN EXAMPLE of the cosmopolitan glamour and sheer brassiness of high European culture in the 19th century, ...